Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-15
Ara Notes.

\ series Of frcscOes at Rome on the
second floor of the Palazzo Xu,carl
giving the story Of Joseph have been
carefully removed to Berlin. They
were painted by the German painters
Cornelius, Overlook, Schadow, Neit,
and Catel.
For the Prix De Rome lib pupils of
Tire Ecole dos Bolux Arts entered into
Competition by painting each "Caius
Gracious Tearing Himself away from
his Family to 90 to the Forum. OF
these twenty were adjudged worthy to
enter the second competition. The sub
| icct was given by VI. Eouguerean.
Diculaioy the explorer Of Shu,han,
! has published his discOsericsin FOUL
.esde Suse, Champagne de 1886, with
chrome reproductions OF the enamelled
bricks. From these it appears that the
| three warriors reported to be black
and supposed to represent Ethiopilns
I'll toe As.atic branch are not OF that
Co.cr.
Tennessee has passed a law assessing
artists $3.50 a year rs II license from
state and county to prosecute their
profession. They must pay that for
the privilege Nothing was said, |
presume, writes the art editor OF the
IoW Americdn Of Nashville, "about
the privilege Of legislator to make an
eprcsious ass of himself
The London public has become 80
arajhetic toward pictures in the matter
Of purchase that old favorites who lived
in show houses ut princely cost are
80 their wits end whittier to turn. The
ltIclt of creat sales in New York. the
success in "the State" of ordinary
PAINTERS like Hubert Herkomer and
poor workman like Moscheles, have
impressed the London artists very
much, and will doubtless encourage
more than two or three 10 cross the
Atlantic this year. Iffashion sets their
way they will reap great harvest; il
not, they will return sadder and wiser,
though they be Raphael and Rembrandt
compounded in one.
IN Arab newspaper of Sidon gives
aG0tberaccountO of the sarcOphagi found
near the garden of the cave facing the
SiGJn aquoduct. Nine were found, Of
which six are plain, and three highly
ornamented. One shows u battle be
tween horsemen and AmaZons (?); a
horseman has woman () by the
hair. and strikes her in the neck 50
that the blood flows. Two warriors
pie rec horseman in face and side,
while corpses lie under foot. The lid
Of this sarc0phagus has an eagle with u
laden on its head. Another coilin has
women carved On its sides in the act OF
weeping, together with figures with
long uecks aud two heads. Others
show chario,s drawn by horses. horse
men. and standing figures, male and
lemale. All the tombs had been rilel
IN the ancient burying-ground az
Pncentia, Newfoundland, once the
capital under French ascendancy, stand
two stones bearing inscriptions in an
unknown tongue. Dr. Robertson
Smith, of Cambridge, England, pro-
nouncCs them Basque, and it appears
| that they are relics of the fleets which
used TO sail from the northwest coast OF
Spain to the fisheries before the French
and English gained complete control.
Cabot discovered the island in 1901, and
in 1917 there were forty Portuguese,
Spanish, and French tishing-craft in
these waters by 1878 as many as four
hundred were counted. The Basques.
considered 10y Humboldt to represent
the Iberi of Spain, are now thought to
be the only remnant Of great race
| peophng Western Europe which has
kept its old language, the other mem
bers of the race having been absorbed
into the Celtic and other conquering
races SO completely as to take the Ian
gusgcs OF the conquerors.
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